Police Regional Office 11 (PRO 11) director BGen. Benjamin Silo Jr. said Davao Region is aiming to be the first region to be declared a drug-free region.
Based on the PRO 11 accomplishment report this year, PRO 11 has recorded a total of 75 police operations for crimes against illegal drugs that resulted in the arrest of 98 individuals and the apprehensions of 23 high value individuals and 68 street individuals.
The said operations netted a total of 113.978 grams of shabu; 1,339.2 grams of marijuana, and 3,000 hills of marijuana amounting to P1,633,028.80.
Davao City Police Office (DCPO) recorded the highest operations made and drug personalities arrested while Davao del Sur Provincial Police Office had the highest registered total amount of drugs confiscated.
“The whole Davao Region is now aspiring to become the first region na maging drug-free. Clear case on point is our Davao Occidental, which is aspiring to be declared as drug-free province,” Silo said.
Silo also announced that the whole Davao Region is now insurgency-free and just waiting to be declared as such by the Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC).
“The whole Davao Region lowered the eight focus crimes that include homicide, murder, crimes against properties, robberies. Imagine those things being accomplished by PRO 11 and in case there is a commission of index crime we see to it that our crime clearance namin as well as crime solutions namin tumataas imagine kung gaano yan ka ganda sa Davao Region,” he said.
Recently, the Provincial Local Government Unit of Davao Oriental declared the whole province as insurgency-free during the Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) meeting held at Honey’s Hotel, Mati City.
The council unanimously approved Resolution Number 1 series of 2022, declaring the province as insurgency-free after Guerilla Front South was dismantled on April 18, 2021; Guerilla Front North on June 20, 2021; and Guerilla Front 18 on September 15, 2022, all previously operating in Davao Oriental.
Likewise, 108 Communist NPA rebels with 109 firearms were neutralized and captured by the security sector in the said province from the 3rd Quarter of 2019 to date.
